What are your stoic meditation mantras?

You need not be melancholy unless you want to be. There are texts, mantras, adages, even copybook maxims, you can recall and meditate upon that will drive away the worst fit of the blues. Here are a few—

Pleasure and pain are opposite expressions of one force.

I am a part of God, and no harm can overtake God.

What is the truth hidden in this well of discontent?

I was happy yesterday, and I am still I.

A frightened dog will never scare away a robber.

If all these ills befall me, it will be an exercise of power to conquer them.

Not very profound, perhaps, but you can write better ones if you wish. I am merely illustrating one process of shaking off the burden of dread.

—The Judge